Category: Other Consumer Issues

Missourinet, June 26, 2014  Senator Claire McCaskill’s Consumer Affairs Committee is going to investigate billing practices of the cable and satellite television industry. She’s asking customers to send their horror stories to her as part of her committee’s look into possible “truth in billing practices” legislation. She says some of the practices are unfair to consumers and need to be cleaned up. In fact, she says, she’s a victim. “You’ve got a ten dollar charge ...

Office of Sen. Barbara Boxer, April 8, 2014 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) sent a letter Tuesday (April 8) urging General Motors CEO Mary Barra to support the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act, bipartisan legislation that would help protect consumers by keeping unsafe, recalled rental cars off the road. Last week, at a Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing on GM’s recall of 2.6 million vehicles, Senator Boxer questioned Barra about GM’s tro ...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 22, 2013 Back in the old days, if you couldn’t make your car payment, you had to watch out for the repo man. Now, the repo man is a robot that rides around in a little device under your dashboard. Miss a payment, and the car becomes a hunk of useless metal immobilized by a starter blocking device triggered from cyberspace. The owner then has a choice — pay up and get use of the car again, or wait until the human repo man eventually rolls up. ...

Sen. McCaskill's Subcomittee on Consumer Protection Holds Hearing St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 21, 2013 WASHINGTON • After working for two years to get rental car companies on board, safety advocates encountered a new obstacle today to legislation banning rental of recalled vehicles: opposition from car manufacturers. With representatives of Clayton-based Enterprise Holdings looking on, the CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers testified in a Senate hearing that ...

McCaskill Will Hold Hearing Washington, D.C., May 9, 2013 A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Claire McCaskill (D-MO), has introduced a bill banning rental car companies from renting recalled vehicles that have not been repaired to consumers. The bill, the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 2013, would close a dangerous loophole that allows rental car companies to rent or sell unrepaired recalled vehicles that are unlawful for car dealers to sel ...

Missourinet, March 4, 2013  This week is National Consumer Protection Week. Attorney General Chris Koster has released the list of top 10 complaints reported to his Consumer Protection Hotline by Missourians in 2012. Unwanted telemarketing calls top the list. The Missouri Attorney General’s Office says it has obtained more than $1.4 million in judgments against telemarketers in 2012, up about $1 million in 2011. “Complaints about unwanted calls have increased dramatically ...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 06, 2011 Barbara Webster thought she had bought a new Sorento at Suntrup Kia in the Mehlville area in February. She traded in her old one, signed a credit agreement and drove away. Now she has no car at all, although she says she made the payments. Suntrup not only took her new car back, but the dealer kept her down payment and didn't return her trade-in. "I'm very upset. They've taken my car," she said, "plus my money." This is an exam ...

Bad News for Missouri by Missouri Hospital Association ...